A-TEAM, ASSEMBLE!! Sara joins forces with Beth from The Fanfic Maverick Podcast to take a DEEP DIVE into the history of fanfiction as we know it. From Ancient Greece to Ao3, we try and cover it all. 

• How are fanfic authors protected by US Copyright Law? (Fair Use!) 


• If George Lucas gets squicked out by your Luke/Han lemon, can his team of lawyers punt your PWP? (Not if you’re non-commercial, young padawan!) 


• How much do you know about the speakeasy of fanfiction, that seedy backroom of the internet obscurely known as WWOMB? (Beth will regale you!) 


• How many items on astolat's original Ao3 wishlist came true (ALL OF THEM! pretty much!)

AFTER LISTENING, subscribe to the Fanfic Maverick Podcast on Apple, Spotify, or whatever-- and stay tuned for PART 2: The exciting panel-style conclusion, where Sara and Beth round up a couple of fandom OGs who will tell you how is was-- and is! 

Contact and Credits:

• Music: Kyle Laurin "In the Air Tonight" (Twitter: @cobrakylemusic)


• Tumblr: talkinfanfic.tumblr.com 


• Instagram: @talkinfanfic


• Email: talkinfanfic@gmail.com

Biblio/Articles to Read

• The Fanfic Maverick Podcast: SUBSCRIBE on your podcast platform, or find next week's episode HERE! https://www.fanficmaverickpodcast.com/ 


• The Fanfiction Studies Reader (Univ of Iowa Press-- you can purchase direct from here, or please contact your local independent bookstore!) 


• https://fanlore.org/wiki/Main_Page 


• VICE, “The Forgotten Early History of Fanfiction” 


• The Surprising 18th Century Origins of Fanfiction (The Atlantic) 


• Fanart in the 18th Century -  "The Punishment Inflicted on Lemuel Gulliver" by William Hogarth 


• Medium: "Fanfiction and Copyright" 


• Legal Fictions: Copyright, Fan Fiction, and a New Common Law  (R. Tushnet, Georgetown Law article, 1997)


• "The Promise and Potential of Fanfiction" (The New Yorker) 


• Alexander Pope wrote a series of “touching if bawdy” poems about Gulliver’s barely mentioned wife, Mary Gulliver, 


• History of Media Fanzines (fanlore)


• 2021 article on Star Trek Prodigy Group ATF 


• https://fanlore.org/wiki/Supernatural_Roundtable (Didn’t get to it, but I just thought this was cool)


• https://fanlore.org/wiki/Category:Chronology 


• https://fanlore.org/wiki/Fandom_1994-2000-ish/Part_One 


• https://fanlore.org/wiki/Fandom_1994-2000-ish/Part_Two  


• Webrings (fanlore) 


• Gossamer Archive 


• Trek Fiction (dot com) 


• Due South Archive / Hexwood (1994)


• Jedi Apprentice Fan Dimension (2000) (Sara’s first!)


• http://www.lcfanfic.com/ Lois & Clark Fanfic Archive (1996 TO PRESENT)


• A Brief History of Modern Fanfiction, the migration of online communities (cached article)


• Announcing Fanfic.net: The Definitive Xfiles Source (fanlore)


• LJ 2007 (there was also a second strikethrough purge later in 2008)


• Fandom, Inc


• Fanlore - cupidsbow "How Fanfiction Makes Us Poor" (April 26, 2007)


• Cesperanza - “Dear Fandom: Could You Please Stop Saying That?” LJ (May 17, 2007)


• Fanlore - Astolat’s “An Archive of One's Own”  (LJ, May 17 2007) (see more below) 


• Wattpad sold (techcrunch article)